Watch SpaceX Launch Big Communications Satellite On Sunday

 Watch SpaceX Launch Big Communications Satellite On Sunday

SpaceX plans to launch a commercial communications satellite to orbit on Sunday (Feb. 5), and you can watch the action live.

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Amazonas Nexus satellite for the Spanish company Hispasat is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Sunday at 5:32 p.M. EST (2232 GMT). There's a 55% chance weather that will be good enough to allow a launch, SpaceX said via Twitter on Friday (Feb. 3).

Watch it live here at Space.Com, courtesy of SpaceX, or directly via the company. Coverage will begin about 15 minutes before launch.

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If all goes according to plan, the Falcon 9's first stage will come back to Earth for a vertical touchdown 8.5 minutes after liftoff on the SpaceX droneship Just Read the Instructions, which will be stationed in the Atlantic Ocean off the Florida coast.

It will be the sixth liftoff and landing for this particular booster, according to a SpaceX mission description. The rocket also lofted the SES-22 communications satellite, the Hakuto-R moon lander for Tokyo-based company ispace and three batches of SpaceX's Starlink internet satellites.

The Falcon 9's upper stage will continue carrying Amazonas Nexus skyward, eventually deploying the 10,000-pound (4,500 kilograms) satellite into geostationary transfer orbit just under 36 minutes after liftoff.